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Old 01-03-2007, 01:29 PM   #11
yesman065
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Originally Posted by MaggieL
I don't think I'm being paranoid, I just wanted to know why you put quotes around the word, surely a reasonable question. Why did you do that? "I wanted to avoid accidents." carries a very different meaning from "I wanted to avoid 'accidents'"; your use of scare quotes carries the implication that what you feared wouldn't actually be accidental.
Because accidents do happen. Thats all nothing more. Please don't try and read into what I write just read what is written.

And I chose not to take my son hunting because his grades were not what we discussed for him to EARN the right to do things like that.

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